Details

Subjects:

Rains, Robert.
Real property -- New Jersey -- Salem County.
Real property.
Salem River (N.J.).
Salem County (N.J.) -- History.
New Jersey -- Salem County.

Form/Genre:

Land surveys.
Manuscripts, American.

Summary:

Survey dated 21 Mar. 1752/3 (the Gregorian calendar had been adopted by Britain and the British colonies only the previous September) of a triangular parcel of 37 acres in Salem County, N.J., at the confluence of Spring Branch and the main branch of Salem Creek, signed Jacob Richman, dep. (deputy surveyor). On the reverse is the inscription Robert Rains Survey, which may provide the name of the owner of the parcel.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Cited as:

Oversize LJS Misc-4

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795396061

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page